Lucifer, written by the award winning Mike Carey and predominantly illustrated by Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, was a series published by Vertigo, spun off from The Sandman. This ongoing series continues from Lucifer's first mini-series, Sandman Presents: Lucifer (also written by Carey), and builds off of plot threads set up therein. The series follows Lucifer Morningstar as he tries to create a world of his own and gets involved in the affairs of angels, demons, gods, and mortals in the process. Lucifer does not appear in eleven issues of the series, and in many that he does appear he makes simple cameos.